Re: 2.6.15-rc5-rt4: BUG: swapper:0 task might have losta preemption check!

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Dec 23 2005 - 13:58:49 EST


On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 10:29 -0600, K.R. Foley wrote:

>
> OK. The BUG still exists (output below) but it does boot now with the
> above patch applied (THANKS Steven!), which would seem to imply the two
> weren't related. ARGH! :)
>
> Dec 23 10:16:27 porky kernel: Event source lapic installed with caps set: 06
> Dec 23 10:16:27 porky kernel: BUG: swapper:0 task might have lost a
> preemption check!
> Dec 23 10:16:27 porky kernel: Brought up 2 CPUs
> Dec 23 10:16:27 porky kernel: checking if image is initramfs... it is
> Dec 23 10:16:27 porky kernel: [<c010424e>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20 (20)
> Dec 23 10:16:27 porky kernel: [<c011c9cf>]
> preempt_enable_no_resched+0x5f/0x70 (20)
> Dec 23 10:16:27 porky kernel: [<c0100ff2>] cpu_idle+0xb2/0x100 (40)
> Dec 23 10:16:27 porky kernel: [<c0111446>]
> start_secondary+0x296/0x340<6>Freeing initrd memory: 452k freed
>

Yeah, I've seen the "might have lost a preemption check" too. But since
this didn't seem to cause a problem booting my kernel (yet), it went to
the end of the todo list.

Does this cause any other problems?

-- Steve


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